The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-30
THINGS

Wool continues low and there is no
indications of a better market o
At the recent session of the Farmers
congress a resolution was adopted iE fa-
vor of increasing the tariff on wool.
Last week Crosby & Quinn of the up
per Shields River valley sold % mutton
lambs at So each, the top price of the
season.
The Northern Pacific are about to in
troduce steam heating and electric lights
in their passenger coaches on the eastern
end of the road.
Billings has organized a militia com
panv and named it the Webb Guards in
honor of our Territorial Secretary,
formerly a resident of that city,
Notwithstanding the predictions that
a bee famine is about to be %perceptible
in IL few days, the Chicago markets are
still crowded with fat cattle.-Husband-
man.
The shipment of mutton sheep from
Montana this fall have been
Over IS. 900 head has been sent over the
Northern Pacific alone, from Eastern
Montana.-Gazette.
J. B. Gilden, who will make a ship
ment of mutton sheep on Friday, has
now closed his operations in that line
for this season He has bought in all
21,0Oo head of sheep in this section of
the country.-Gazette.
The number ofcattle estimated by the
stock shippers to be going out of Mon
tana this fall is about 10000 head with
q home consumption of about 10000,
making a total beef crop about 10000
head.-Gazette.
Samuel Elwell, of Shields River valley
sold 20 head of Angora goats last week
to a Livingston butcher at IS per head.
These are the first goats that have been
used for mutton in the territory, but
there is no reason why the should not be
as good as sheep.-Husbandman.
The great losses in stock in Montana
last winter had led conservative judges
to estimate a decrease in movement Of
stock east from Montana and Dakota
this fall of about fifty per cent. The
figures are now in and show a decrease
of only ten per embellishments Tri.
bune.
At a mass meeting at Billings last Fri.
day the citizens protested against the
proposed move of the Washington
authorities to place northern Indians
upon the Grow reservation. Resolutions
were adopted setting forth "the great
injustice of the proposed Indian move
and the great damage it would work up.
On Billings"
On Wednesday evening the trial o.
John Hart for the murder of John W
Pitts was concluded in the district court
and Judge Mcconnell gave the case to
the jury with a lengthy charge. about s
o'clock that night. In less than an houl
after they retired the jury returned
verdict of guilty of murder in the frs
degree in and from as charged
in the indictment. The prisoner wa.
remanded for sentence.
Two cowboys, William Lang and Franz
Lewis, camped on Fly creek, Grow
reservation, became engaged in ar
alteration on the 2lst. Lang pulled
pistol and shot once at Lewis, the bal
passed through his hat. Lang ther
said, 81 will kill You before morning.
Lewis went out to picket his horse, ant
returning stopped at a wagon and remov
ed n rifle and shot Lang dead at thu
camp fire. Lewis came in tonight, &C
companied by the cook of the outfit ant
an Indian, both e~ve-witnesses and de
livered himself up to the sheriff here.
1t is thought here and in New Yorl
that the Northern Pacific will tax,
charge of the Yellowstone park hotel
next season, the management of Gibson
Bros. not having been satisfactory to tn,
government or the Northern Pacific
Capt. Harris, superintendent of the parl
writes to the secretary of the interio
that he suspected that any othe
party except the Yellowstone Park as
ISOLATION was conducting business in tn
park under color of Gibson's lease, an,
should have interfered had he though
such the case.-Independent,